Review 2023: A Review of 2023: February.

01    James Gunn announced  an amazing new slate of DC films.  #firejamesgunn quickly trends on the socials.

02    Punxsutawney Phil saw a shadow

03    She-Hulk appears on Art of the Title

04    The Chinese Spy Balloon

05    Happy Valley concluded

06    A magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated areas across southeast Turkey and northern Syria

07    Rose Day

08    Twitter suffered a major outage which meant users could only use scheduled tweets

09    New deputy Tory chairman Lee Anderson MP asks BBC Nottingham drive time presenter Verity Cowley ten times if she's a liar when she questions him about his mistruths, then he asks that the interview not be played.  They played it.  In full.

10    Burt Bacharach, one of pop's greatest songwriters, died aged 94

11    McDonald's removed 'tasteless' advert after putting it opposite crematorium

12    U.S. shoots down unidentified cylindrical object over Canada

13    The White House says it wasn't aliens

14    "Weather Balloon"

15    Nicola Sturgeon resigned as Scotland’s first minister

16    Marco Goecke, German ballet director who smeared critic with faeces sacked

17    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania released

18    Eyeroll.  2023 folks

19    Ali Plumb "attacked" Jamie Lee Curtis with rubber hotdog hands on the Bafta red carpet

20    Art fair visitor breaks $42,000 Jeff Koons balloon dog sculpture

21    Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian gave this sensible appraisal of the Roald Dahl editing controversy

22    UK Twitter spent the morning trying to work out why Hannah Waddingham had been chosen to present Eurovision

23    The Tomato Shortage

24    One year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

25    It snowed in Hollywood

26    Northern Lights in the UK

27    Another Brexit deal in Northern Ireland

28    PM Rishi Sunak said the following and redefined irony:  "Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position - unique position in the entire world - in having privileged access not just to the UK market… but also the EU single market.  Nobody else has that. No one. Only you guys, only here."